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The CNC system hadn't been installed?!

Aside from Lu Zhou, everyone standing in the warehouse froze.

Secretary Wu from Shenyang Machine Tool sighed, pulled out a cigarette, and walked outside the warehouse. Director Li from the Science and Industry Bureau stood beside him in silence, staring at the two machines with disappointment written all over his face.

As for Yang Zhongquan, he looked as though someone had snatched away a winning lottery ticket. The wrinkles on his face bunched together as he stood there, shaking his head and sighing.

"The supporting system wasn't installed... I knew there couldn't be such a bargain."

At first, he had been unable to figure out how Lu Zhou had acquired this batch of equipment for the "dirt-cheap" price of twenty million euros. Those two machines alone should have cost more than that. Now, though, he finally understood. What they had bought was a "castrated version."

Somewhat baffled by the disappointment on everyone's faces, Lu Zhou cleared his throat and asked quietly.

"Isn't it just that a system wasn't installed?"

To him, it hardly seemed like a big deal...

Yet that single sentence immediately provoked the outrage of the engineers.

Yang Zhongquan in particular could not hold back any longer.

"Do you know what a CNC system means to a machine tool?"

Lu Zhou: "..."

Fine. As someone who worked in Mathematics, he really did not understand this stuff very well.

Even so, he truly did not think it was worth getting so worked up over.

Seeing that the two technical heavyweights were about to start arguing across disciplines again, Director Li cleared his throat and hurriedly stepped in to mediate, explaining to Lu Zhou.

"Machine tools are rather special. There are two core difficulties: hardware and software. There's not much to say about the